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Jim Meyering
29a91488a9 (mv invocation): Document this. 
(cp invocation): Document -u (it was missing!) with new behavior.
 2004-04-12 09:22:02 +00:00
Jim Meyering
eee12ddc9d Remove noctty flag from dd. 2004-04-08 21:36:45 +00:00
Jim Meyering
4b68b2dd0f New dd conv= symbols nocreat, excl, fdatasync, fsync, 
and new dd options iflag= and oflag=.

(dd invocation): Document them.
 2004-04-08 15:35:40 +00:00
Jim Meyering
246870834b (stty invocation - Input): Document new iutf8 option. 2004-04-07 09:50:48 +00:00
Jim Meyering
378375a2bd (stat invocation): Correct --format description. 2004-04-04 16:24:25 +00:00
Jim Meyering
98e876d783 (Block size): Document new envvar BLOCKSIZE. 2004-03-24 17:38:17 +00:00
Jim Meyering
6efb50627e Use @sc{nul} consistently for NUL. 
(du invocation): FILE0 -> FILE.
 2004-03-24 15:12:39 +00:00
Jim Meyering
b6ed597b0f (du invocation): --files0-from is useful with 
--total (-c), not with --summarize.
 2004-03-23 11:33:56 +00:00
Jim Meyering
29e2176da8 Tweak a few lines that resulted in `overfull hbox' warnings. 2004-03-22 22:27:33 +00:00
Jim Meyering
47be7107b3 (du invocation): Document new option: --file0-from=F. 2004-03-21 18:48:17 +00:00
Jim Meyering
a6ba09871c (touch invocation): 
Describe use of fractional seconds.
(date invocation, Options for date): Likewise.
(date invocation): Mention effect of LC_TIME.
(Options for date): Describe new --iso-8601=ns option.
 2004-03-17 17:31:15 +00:00
Jim Meyering
17257fea63 (date invocation): Add missing `C' to %[...] range 
in the `Date directives:: ...' menu entry.  From Bob Proulx.
 2004-03-15 13:03:13 +00:00
Jim Meyering
a613e4f93a Add FIXME comment: 
The following don't have `invocation' nodes: [, pinky, shasum, uptime
 2004-03-15 12:02:19 +00:00
Jim Meyering
11a0405450 (Sorting the output): Remove description of 
ls's --sort=directory option.  ls doesn't accept that option, yet.
 2004-03-10 17:53:50 +00:00
Jim Meyering
ebbbe4553a (cp invocation): Improve description of cp's --sparse=WHEN option. 2004-03-10 09:51:26 +00:00
Jim Meyering
df1dd184d7 (nl invocation): Specify that these are _basic_ 
regular expressions (BRE), and add a link to grep's documentation.
 2004-03-10 06:50:59 +00:00
Jim Meyering
50c485dac0 (chown invocation): Document that chown now falls 
back on USER.GROUP parsing regardless of POSIX version, as POSIX
1003.1-2001 allows that behavior as a compatible extension.
 2004-03-03 07:52:36 +00:00
Jim Meyering
4f23a90bf9 tweak wording of last change 2004-02-22 15:44:32 +00:00
Jim Meyering
fd08f4d726 (du invocation): Mention that using du's -H option currently evokes a warning. 2004-02-22 15:37:50 +00:00
Jim Meyering
82025d96f7 (expr invocation): 
Document what forms integers may take, and say "integer"
consistently instead of "number".  Warn about operands
that "expr" can misinterpret, and how to work around the problem.
 2004-02-21 09:31:11 +00:00
Jim Meyering
e1c06d999c (csplit invocation): Correct typo s/LINE/N/ 
in description of `N' pattern.
 2004-02-17 18:16:29 +00:00
Jim Meyering
867564d1a6 (Formatting the file names): 
Improve wording for --quoting-style documentation.
Suggestions by Bruno Haible.
 2004-02-11 11:22:18 +00:00
Jim Meyering
b9cff86909 revert unrelated (ls --quoting-style) part of last change 2004-02-11 08:44:39 +00:00
Jim Meyering
e454ef2d2a (Time directives): The %s value *is* changed by the 
--date=DATE option; don't say otherwise.  Patch from Padraig Brady.
 2004-02-11 08:42:31 +00:00
Jim Meyering
ce82b9cc86 Hyphenate `three-column' when used as an adjective. 2004-02-09 17:41:16 +00:00
Jim Meyering
a61d512f4c (nice invocation): Add examples. 
Prompted by suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
(factor invocation): Add an example.
Update timing numbers for a more modern CPU.
 2004-02-02 13:20:52 +00:00
Jim Meyering
8c16c67625 Separate `Synopses' section into three examples. 
Clarify first paragraph.  @w{}-protect an expression.1
	Use @option{--option}, rather than @code{--option}.
 2004-01-27 12:53:24 +00:00
Jim Meyering
15dc7fd365 (seq invocation): Remove `@dots{}' at end of synopsis. 2004-01-27 12:30:36 +00:00
Jim Meyering
6f8f6eaf43 (Exit status): Document that ordinary failure 
might not exit with status 1 on unusual platforms.
Mention chroot, env, nice, and su as having unusual exit
status patterns.  Don't bother to mention true and false
since their exit status patterns are actually normal.
(sort invocation, su invocation): Mention its unusual exit
status pattern.
(chroot invocation): Simplify description of exit status 1.
Remove duplicate description of status 127.
(env invocation): Use consistent tenses; simplifiy description
of status 1.
(nice invocation): Likewise.
 2004-01-22 22:13:27 +00:00
Jim Meyering
7430e918cb (touch invocation): touch -r and -d can now 
both be specified, with -r specifying the origin for -d.
 2004-01-16 07:53:19 +00:00
Jim Meyering
45871380c2 Factor out some common options. 
(Common options): Define macros here.
(What information is listed, cp invocation): Use the macro(s).
(install invocation, mv invocation, ln invocation): Likewise.
(df invocation, du invocation): Likewise.
 2004-01-15 10:58:47 +00:00
Jim Meyering
67e588d2df (yes invocation): Document that a write error 
makes `yes' exit unsuccessfully.
(chroot invocation): Enumerate the meaning of exit status values.
(nice invocation): Likewise.
(Exit status) [@macro exitstatus]: New macro.
Use @exitstatus to describe the exit status of most programs.
 2004-01-09 18:15:58 +00:00
Jim Meyering
3c0b7717ef (du invocation): Mention that -H will eventually 
mean not --si, but --dereference-args (-D).
 2004-01-09 16:21:51 +00:00
Jim Meyering
8e25ccda3c (join invocation): Remove documentation 
accordingly.  Document that -t makes all separators significant.
 2003-12-30 08:26:16 +00:00
Jim Meyering
340b33464a (du invocation): Describe new option: -0, --null. 2003-12-20 11:28:14 +00:00
Jim Meyering
131083bdbc (What information is listed, chroot invocation): 
Adjust example 'ls' output to match new behavior with narrower
output columns.
(The cut command): Remove example that cut the output of
'ls -l'.  The output was incorrect even with the old 'ls', and
the whole idea of using 'cut' on 'ls -l' output is bogus anyway.
 2003-12-08 08:37:36 +00:00
Jim Meyering
fea15ed751 Tweak mark-up to use @env, not @code in a few places. 
Mark new use of LC_NUMERIC.
 2003-11-27 07:58:32 +00:00
Jim Meyering
c7ba991a1d Parse floating-point operands and options in the C locale. 
POSIX requires this for printf, and we might as well be
consistent elsewhere (tail, sleep, seq).

(tail invocation, printf invocation,
sleep invocation, seq invocation): Document this.
 2003-11-27 07:52:45 +00:00
Jim Meyering
8580fa2908 (Traversing symlinks): Rearrange things. 
(chown invocation): Add xrefs to `Traversing symlinks' for -H, -P, -L.
(chgrp invocation): Likewise.
 2003-11-26 11:21:28 +00:00
Jim Meyering
1915bbbed5 (Traversing symlinks, Treating / specially): New sections. 
(rm invocation, chown invocation, chmod invocation, chgrp invocation):
Describe new options, --preserve-root and --no-preserve-root.
 2003-11-24 10:58:08 +00:00
Jim Meyering
35fcd6024f (@chownchgrpoptions): add index entry for this. 2003-11-11 12:42:02 +00:00
Jim Meyering
b24c54e8ee (chown invocation) [chownchgrpoptions]: New macro 
describing -H, -L, -P options.  Use it here.
(chgrp invocation): And here.
 2003-11-11 12:38:07 +00:00
Jim Meyering
19376dd257 (dd invocation): Fix typo in example. 2003-11-09 07:21:47 +00:00
Jim Meyering
0d3c3801d6 (ln invocation): Note that --directory, -d, -F 
probably won't work even for superuser.
 2003-10-15 07:43:04 +00:00
Jim Meyering
49e0862ebb (csplit invocation): 
The regexp offset need not have a sign; POSIX requires support
for signless offets.
 2003-10-08 17:53:18 +00:00
Jim Meyering
b1c0650ca5 (du invocation): Describe -P, --no-dereference. 2003-10-03 20:15:36 +00:00
Jim Meyering
5fba963d34 (Translating): Correct typo in menu description. 2003-09-28 08:00:50 +00:00
Jim Meyering
c39acefee8 (sort invocation): -d now overrides -i. 
"whitespace" -> "blanks"; "whitespace" isn't correct.
-t '\0' now specifies a NUL tab.
 2003-09-04 22:25:34 +00:00
Jim Meyering
2a1a23828c (who invocation): Begin adding missing option documentation. 2003-08-17 17:10:25 +00:00
Jim Meyering
485e87fc26 (who invocation): Add an entry for -l, --login. 
Remove `-l' from the entry for --lookup.
 2003-08-17 16:13:30 +00:00